Astronauts

[msc 18,436]

Iola Brubeck lasted 15 months in similar conditions, and that was fairly impressive.

[Sean 6,311]

 

 

Cute picture of Annie Glenn, John's widow at his service. She is wheelchair-bound, but looking pretty good for close to 97.

 

Awh that is a heartbreaking photo.Childhood sweethearts and married for 73 years.Must be heartbreaking.Reckon she won`t last long without him.

Well if they were high school sweethearts she too is 95-ish so just how fahkin long do you think we should expect her to last? Define 'last long without him' so I have an inkling if we can put a date certain and make a poll question.

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They lived near each other and she is only a year older.I would say she will probably go sometime in 2017.Old frail and bereaved.

[The Happy Reaper 223]

Piers Sellers, UK-born astronaut who flew three times on the Shuttle, dead of pancreatic cancer.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38424071

[Thatcher 2,386]

Eugene Cernan, NASA Astronaut and the last man to walk on the moon, has died aged 82.

Here is the BBC obituary.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

Eugene Cernan, NASA Astronaut and the last man to walk on the moon, has died aged 82.

Per ardua ad astra. Requiescat in pace.

 

Bugger! We're not supposed to post in Latin.

[Joey Russ 7,220]

Eugene Cernan, NASA Astronaut and the last man to walk on the moon, has died aged 82.

 

Here's the daily mail for DDP purposes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4125806/Gene-Cernan-man-walk-moon-dies-aged-82.html

[gcreptile 10,964]

Congratulations, Death Impends, that was a good discovery!

[RoverAndOut 4,746]

With the death of Edgar Mitchell, I found myself wondering how many of the men on the moon were still going. Having read this entire thread, I see no one has published an up-to-date list in quite some time so, with nothing to do this morning, here goes:

 

1. Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11, b.1930, d.2012

2. Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin - Apollo 11, b.1930 (aged 86)

3. Pete Conrad - Apollo 12, b.1930, d.1999

4. Alan Bean - Apollo 12, b.1932 (aged 83)

5. Alan Shepard - Apollo 14, b.1923, d.1998

6. Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14, b.1930, d.2016

7. David Scott - Apollo 15, b.1932 (aged 83)

8. James Irwin - Apollo 15, b.1930, d.1991

9. John W. Young - Apollo 16, b.1930 (aged 85)

10. Charles Duke - Apollo 16, b.1935 (aged 80)

11. Eugene Cernan - Apollo 17, b.1934 (aged 81)

12. Harrison Schmidt - Apollo 17, b.1935 (aged 80)

 

Half gone now. The first and last to set foot on the moon are now reunited up there. Godspeed Eugene.

[Death Impends 7,956]

Congratulations, Death Impends, that was a good discovery!

 

Thanks, it's a good start to my theme team even if the December carnage cost it two gimmes. Though it's strange to think my theme got DDP points before my main.

 

RIP Eugene, sad to think we're down to half of the moon men

[The Happy Reaper 223]

Cernan always said that he hated being 'the last man on the Moon' and hoped there would be some new footprints up there someday. Alas, there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

[Toast 16,129]

Cernan always said that he hated being 'the last man on the Moon' and hoped there would be some new footprints up there someday. Alas, there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

 

They could always send Trump and leave him there.

[Death Impends 7,956]

Or the first man on Mars. Blending perfectly into all the orange.

[bladan 293]

Who's next. Six options, Aldrin Bean Scott Young Duke Schmidt.

 

It's Aldrin or Young. Aldrin?

[deadsox 894]

Who's next. Six options, Aldrin Bean Scott Young Duke Schmidt.

 

It's Aldrin or Young. Aldrin?

Personally, I don't give a Schmidt.

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

 

Who's next. Six options, Aldrin Bean Scott Young Duke Schmidt.

 

It's Aldrin or Young. Aldrin?

Personally, I don't give a Schmidt.

 

 

 

Let's not forget they were beaten there by black astronauts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7gkQ7UkzI

[gcreptile 10,964]

 

 

Who's next. Six options, Aldrin Bean Scott Young Duke Schmidt.

 

It's Aldrin or Young. Aldrin?

Personally, I don't give a Schmidt.

 

 

 

Let's not forget they were beaten there by black astronauts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7gkQ7UkzI

 

I thought that link was going to lead to this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msL-XFs3Ggs (probably NSFW)

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

Morbid memento - Apollo One's escape hatch goes on display: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-28/nasa-unveils-spaceship-hatch-50-years-after-fatal-apollo-1-fire/8220248

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

Morbid memento - Apollo One's escape hatch goes on display: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-28/nasa-unveils-spaceship-hatch-50-years-after-fatal-apollo-1-fire/8220248

 

 

Not so morbid mind, they've removed the fingernails embedded at the time

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

 

Morbid memento - Apollo One's escape hatch goes on display: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-28/nasa-unveils-spaceship-hatch-50-years-after-fatal-apollo-1-fire/8220248

 

 

Not so morbid mind, they've removed the fingernails embedded at the time

 

 

 

And - not for the nervous, obviously - but you can listen to the disaster online these days: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_One_Recording.ogg

 

And, as Nick Ross was fond of saying; these incidents are not very common - don't have nightmares

[Caisson 37]

Morbid memento - Apollo One's escape hatch goes on display: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-28/nasa-unveils-spaceship-hatch-50-years-after-fatal-apollo-1-fire/8220248

Wow and people say Jack the Ripper museums are creepy... fuck that

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

 

Morbid memento - Apollo One's escape hatch goes on display: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-28/nasa-unveils-spaceship-hatch-50-years-after-fatal-apollo-1-fire/8220248

 

Wow and people say Jack the Ripper museums are creepy... fuck that

Yep. Well at least it is unused...

[drol 11,921]

Soviet Cosmonaut and Hero of URSS Georgy Grechko has died aged 85, of heart failure after suffering serious illnesses for years.

 

Oh, Sir Creep is back. He won't like the Russian link...

[Sir Creep 7,070]

23 minutes ago, drol said:

Soviet Cosmonaut and Hero of URSS Georgy Grechko has died aged 85, of heart failure after suffering serious illnesses for years.

 

Oh, Sir Creep is back. He won't like the Russian link...

True dat; can we agree it's kinda useless?  Or are we going to agree to disagree?  No matter....you got a 'like' anyway.

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[drol 11,921]

21 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

True dat; can we agree it's kinda useless?  Or are we going to agree to disagree?  No matter....you got a 'like' anyway.

SC

I thought you were away to take Russian lessons...

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Viktor Gorbatko, one of the first Soviet-era cosmonauts and a veteran of three flights into space, died on Wednesday (May 17). He was 82. 
"Roscosmos expresses deep condolences to the relatives and friends of Viktor Vasilyevich," the space agency wrote in a statement posted to its website. 
The cause of death was not stated. TASS, the state-owned news agency, reported Gorbatko died in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital after falling ill in recent weeks. 
In March 1960 at the age of 26, Gorbatko was selected to train alongside Yuri Gagarin and 18 other air force pilots as the Soviet Union's first cosmonaut group. 

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